189A.8 - PROHIBITED ACTS.
189A.8 PROHIBITED ACTS.
1. No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or
transportation, or receive for transportation in intrastate commerce,
any carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or parts of such
carcasses, or the meat or meat food products thereof, unless they are
plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or otherwise identified
as required by regulations prescribed by the secretary to show the
kinds of animals from which they were derived.
2. No person shall buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or
transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate
commerce, any livestock products or poultry products which are not
intended for use as human food unless they are denatured or otherwise
identified as required by the regulations of the secretary or are
naturally inedible by humans.
3. No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or
transporting in intrastate commerce, dead, dying, disabled, or
diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that
died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer
for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in such
commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry
or the products of any such animals that died otherwise than by
slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation is made in
accordance with such regulations as the secretary may prescribe to
assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products
thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.
Section History: Early Form
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 189A.8]